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439 Assumed quotes by 377 unique authors

What struck me whenever I visited a farm was how much more sophisticated was the life the animals were capable of living than was assumed… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
It is often falsely assumed, even by feminists, that sexuality is the enemy of the female who really wants to develop these aspects of her… — Germaine Greer
So far it has been assumed that the only pregnancies which are aborted are accidental ones and the only foetuses destroyed those whose mothers could… — Germaine Greer
Sometimes the simplest and best use of our will is to drop it all and just walk out from under everything that is covering us,… — Mark Nepo
The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases,… — H. L. Mencken
I had motives for not wanting the world to have meaning; consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find… — Fred Hoyle
Here is one optimists reason for believing unity will prevail ... within the next hundred years ... nationhood as we know it will be obsolete;… — Strobe Talbott
Although I am even now still a layman in the area of mathematics, and although I lack theoretical knowledge, the mathematicians, and in particular the… — M.C. Escher
By the 'mud-sill' theory it is assumed that labor and education are incompatible; and any practical combination of them impossible. According to that theory, a… — Abraham Lincoln
Rule 1. Original data should be presented in a way that will preserve the evidence in the original data for all the predictions assumed to… — Walter A. Shewhart
The best approach is to dig out and eliminate problems where they are assumed not to exist. — Shigeo Shingo
I remember as a young child, during one of my frequent trips to the local library, spending hours looking at book after book trying in… — Daniel Tammet
One is only really inwardly comfortable, so to speak, after one's life has assumed some sort of shape. Not just a routine, like studying or… — Jessica Mitford
There are some flaws in the assumptions made for democracy. It is assumed that all men and women are equal or should be equal. Hence,… — Lee Kuan Yew
We seem to be a long way off from the kind of Fascism which we behold in Italy today, but we are not so far… — John T. Flynn
No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime. — Guy Sajer
The arts are neglected because they are based on perception, and perception is disdained because it is not assumed to involve thought. — Rudolf Arnheim
It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas — Edward Bond
It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be… — Morris Raphael Cohen
I have searched everywhere to find an answer to my question, 'Is there enlightenment?' but have never questioned the search itself. Because I have assumed… — U.G. Krishnamurti
The more I was treated as a woman, the more woman I became. A adapted willy-nilly. If I was assumed to be incompetent at reversing… — Jan Morris
At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.… — George Orwell
If you have assumed a character above your strength, you have both acted in this matter in an unbecoming way, and you have neglected that… — Epictetus
Science, incidentally, not only ignores the question of indwelling 'essences' by looking instead at measurable relationships, but science also does not agree that knowledge is… — Robert Anton Wilson
I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was… — Thom Gunn

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